I was wondering, does anyone know of a doujinshi publisher that might possibly allow me to publish my HP doujinshi.

I know Sunrise Publication does, but come on, I know US copyright laws are a bitch, but isn't there a way around them?

Do you know that you're kind of contradicting yourself in that post? First, you are using the term "doujinshi publisher": The term Doujinshi refers to self-published materials so there can't be a "doujinshi publisher" (since the term itself is an oxymoron). Second, you're using the term doujinshi here. This term specifically refers to "Japanese self-published works" so unless you're Japanese you can't use it to describe your work (I've seen some people use the term "American Doujinshi" but this too is an Oxymoron in my opinion).
Third, even if you were Japanese you couldn't publish your work in Japan since it's copyrighted over there. Sure, you could self-publish it and sell it on Doujinshi conventions or online using print-on-demand services (And the Japanese generally don't use "fancy" methods to self-publish their doujinshis, no, they usually use the cheapest one. For example, one type of doujin is called "kopiishi" which means that the doujinshi was made using the most economical means, like xeroxing the original work and binding the photocopies together with staples.) but you could never do it using an established third-party publisher (A doujin can't have an ISBN number) if the work is based in a copyrighted series as I said before (unless it became licenced, like some Eva mangas but technically it wouldn't be a doujinshi anymore...).

And Fourth, have you asked yourself why people is beginning to use the term doujinshi instead of self-publishing (or a fanfiction in this case)? or why the whole doujinshi phenomenon causes so much fascination to us Westerns? Have you considered that it can be because things like that are probably only seen in Japan? Over there they not only tolerate it, they even are seen as something normal (some mangakas even have their own doujinshi circle but sadly things are not always like that. For example, the recent case of Shogakukan taking legal actions against a doujinshi author and making him pay several million yens ) but in USA (and probably every Western country) things like that are unthinkable. (You should know that by now Fdsfgs...)

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I actually thought that doujinshi referred to fanfiction mangas. The term fanfiction implies that the piece is done like a novel, like in Fanfiction.net. To me, they can be made by anyone in the world.

No, such things are not tolerated in the U.S. But maybe you could publish it through a Japanese company and get a translator to translate it into Japanese.

That's a terrible misconception that somehow is kind of widespread within the Western world. I think that is because the doujinshis based on pre-existent mangas are the most popular over here and most likely the only ones we heard about.


Yeah, fanfiction can be made by anyone, but doujinshis can only be made by the Japanese (otherwise it wouldn't be called "doujinshi"). And by the way, that term is also used to describe novels and videogames too, not only manga.


Are you conscious of what you just said? and what do you mean with "Japanese company"? (did you even bother in read what I wrote before?). Now, just tell me, where have you seen a doujinshi based on a pre-existent manga being published by a large company without being licenced? (or in other words, having a ISBN number?)

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Show us some frames. I bet its crap like most of them. If its not by all means try and get it published.

And get sued for copyright violation? I don't think so. (the only way to publish a fanfic is that it has to be a parody of some kind, I believe.)


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Or just publish it online as fanfiction and put ads on the site.